Mr. Chair, if I may, there is a movement here in Canada to build a monument. The mission of Tribute to Liberty, an organization to which I belong, is to establish a monument, which is to be in Ottawa.
One more thing I want to add is most people in despair say there is no way to solve the problem, not only because of the characteristics of the North Korean regime but also because they have a good brother, China. We cannot deal with China effectively; it's too much for us.
The world is changing in China and North Korea. There is a new generation in China. I heard that people care now. The younger generation in China cares about how they are viewed by the outside world. Up to now they haven't had that access, but now they are beginning to think of how they are viewed by western countries. That means we have a chance. We can ask the Chinese government to do something about it. If we keep asking them, I think they will listen.
In North Korea I heard from one of the refugees. North Korea depends on the military because the military is isolated. They are so faithful to the regime because they don't know, as they don't have any outside information. The soldiers in the North Korean army now are of the generation that in their childhood experienced the period of starvation in the late 1990s. They knew their grandmothers and grandfathers and parents died of starvation. If anything happens, they can act against the regime, even though they are in the army.
These days we are talking about the Egyptian crisis. There are some similarities and differences between North Korea and Egypt. If you keep a dictatorship for so long, something will happen eventually. In other words, if you don't act to prevent it, the resulting crisis and chaos will be very costly, so we should recognize that.
In North Korea there are many cellphones now. The well-to-do people use these communications. Even high officials are defecting to South Korea these days. The South Korean government does not reveal them publicly because it would provoke the North Korean regime. There are many high officials in the army and in the bureaucracy who are defecting to South Korea. We don't know the number, but there are many.
The thing is the sudden change shouldn't be in the form of an explosion. It should be an implosion. It should be brought down nicely. The international community should prepare for the change sooner or later, and Canada is one of the leading countries to do that.